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Liz Borkowski is a Research Associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She lives in Washington, DC and loves public transportation and pumpkin empanadas.
Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She also spent a decade working for the US Department of Labor, and has served on the teams investigating the 2006 Sago mine disaster and 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster for the state of West Virginia.
August 31, 2009
Category: Regulation
In a two-page notice in today's Federal Register, the Department of Labor's acting assistant secretary for policy has officially withdrawn the so-called "secret rule" on occupational health risk assessment. It was exactly this time last summer that the G.W. Bush Administration's...
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August 28, 2009
Category: Environmental Health
by Kas Universities nation-wide welcome students to their campuses for the start of a new academic year. With “sustainability” on the lips of many university administrators and faculty, it comes as no surprise that new student orientations and university move-in...
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Category: Confined Space @ TPH
High Country News investigated worker deaths in dairy operations in Western states, and found that at least 18 people died between 2003 and 2009. (See their list of injuries and deaths for details.) Rebecca Claren explains: They were killed in...
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August 27, 2009
Category: Environmental Health
by Kas In August 2006, the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program (NVMSRP) was established by the USEPA in a cooperative effort with auto manufacturers, steelmakers, dismantlers, shredders, State governments, environmentalists, and trade associations. The NVMSRP was designed to recover...
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August 26, 2009
As the nation mourns the loss of Senator Edward Kennedy, it's worth reading a Newsweek piece he wrote just last month on why the struggle for universal healthcare has been the cause of his life. He writes about the many times in...
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August 25, 2009
Category: Environmental Health
One of the most e-mailed articles on the New York Times website today is Dickson D. Despommier’s op-ed “A Farm on Every Floor.” He has an intriguing proposal: grow crops inside tall buildings, a practice known as vertical farming. Since climate...
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August 24, 2009
Category: Environmental Health
As evidence about the health risks associated with smoking accumulated, the tobacco industry responded by funding its own research, which concluded that cigarettes aren't so bad after all. They recruited spokespeople who'd proclaim tobacco's safety without revealing that they were...
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August 21, 2009
Category: Regulation
by Richard Denison, PhD cross-posted from blogs.edf In June, EPA published a Federal Register notice that included Significant New Use Rules (SNURs) for two carbon nanotubes (as well as 21 other chemicals). That notice certainly got the attention of lawyers...
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Category: Safety
Three physicians and researchers from the Capital University of Medical Sciences (Beijing, China) have published a case report in the European Respiratory Journal describing severe lung disease in seven female workers employed at a shop where they applied polyacrylic coatings to polystyrene boards. ...
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August 20, 2009
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
An Institute of Medicine task force responsible for recommending protections for healthcare workers from the swine flu/H1N1 virus held a meeting last week, and CIDRAP reporters were there. Robert Roos reports that the first day focused on the efficacy of...
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